Here Comes The Push To Repeal Obamacare

Democrats To Fight ObamaCare Repeal
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Senate Democrats are warning House Speaker-elect John Boehner they’ll block any Republican effort to Repeal President Barack Obama’s Health Care overhaul. Citing better Medicare prescription coverage and other changes in the new law, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his top lieutenants say the overhaul “is too important to be treated as Collateral Damage in a partisan mission to Repeal health care.” The letter says Repeal would have “...

The Dems' Wasted Opportunity on Health Reform
Republicans have placed their assault on Health Care reform at the top of their agenda for the new Congress, planning to put a Repeal of the federal law up for a vote as soon as possible. Full-out Repeal is unlikely to go anywhere: even if the bill passed the House, it would have trouble clearing the Senate, and President Obama could always Veto it in the end. But the GOP hopes the vote will give Republicans the momentum to undermine support for the law on the state level, gut smaller provisions...

Senate Dems to Boehner: We'll block your repeal push
Game on! In the first official response from Dems to the House GOP plan to Repeal health reform, Senate Democrats have penned a sharply worded letter to House Speaker John Boehner vowing that Repeal is a dead letter in the Senate, the Associated Press reports. Here's a copy of the letter itself, and it's well worth reading, because it provides the first clear glimpse of how Democrats will mount their political pushback against the GOP's Repeal campaign. The crux of the argument is that Repeal ...

Finding Reverse Gear in the New Year
The incoming 112th Congress has a lot of work to do… and several important things to undo. President Obama has already used his first weekly radio address of the new year to declare Democrats and Republicans have a “shared responsibility to move this country forward.” On the contrary, the Republicans have a duty to make 2011 the year America finds its reverse gear. Here are four terrible ideas from the recent past that our ne...

Fair & Balanced
From FoxNews.com (emphasis, eh, added): The Republicans' pledge to hold an early vote to Repeal the health care law is widely seen as symbolic. Republicans reason that the voters who gave them the House majority in November expect them to at least go on record against the health law in the next session, though congressional rules make it highly unlikely that they'll be able to overturn it while a Democratic president is in office. I'm not sure exactly what bureaucratic, nit-picking, undemocrat...

Dems threaten Boehner with blocking repeal of health reform
The Senate's top Democrats wrote incoming House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Monday, vowing to block Legislation to Repeal Healthcare Reform. The five top Democrats in the Senate wrote Boehner in an effort to preemptively pressure the new GOP House against advancing Legislation to undo the healthcare reform law passed last year, benefits of which started to take effect on Jan. 1. The Democrats, led by Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.), warned in specifics that if the GOP House passed a b...

Rep. John Boehner set to repeal Obama victories
At the top of Rep. John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) list are government regulations designed to keep the public safe and healthy.The new speaker of the House is planning moves to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency and Obama's new Health Care reform laws. “Democrats, who in many cases looked on the law as a rabid beast best avoided in the fall Elections, are reversing course, gearing up for a coordinated all-out effort to preserve and defend it. Under the law, they say, consumers ar...

Celebrating the New GOP Majority
WASHINGTON — Welcome to the Republicans who take over the House of Representatives this week. Since it is a new year, let us be optimistic about what this development means for our nation. There is already a standard line of advice to Speaker-to-be John Boehner and his colleagues that goes like this: Democrats overreached in the last Congress by doing too much and ignoring “the center.” Republicans should be careful not to make the same mistake, lest they lose their majority, ...

House Republicans eye quick repeal of healthcare law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives plan to hold a vote in January to Repeal President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul and say they have nearly enough support to override a presidential Veto of the repeal, a top lawmaker said on Sunday. "Unpopularity numbers are as high as 60 percent across the country," Fred Upton, the incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said of the healthcare law. "I don't think we're going to be that far off from hav...

GOP agenda may mean more in 2012 than now
(01-03) 04:26 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- Even if the next two years end in congressional gridlock, Republicans hope to build a record that demonstrates to voters in 2012 that they can get it right. The GOP is promising to use the new Congress that convenes Wednesday to cut spending, roll back President Barack Obama's Health Care overhaul and prevent unelected Bureaucrats from expanding the government's role in society through regulations that tell people what they must or can't do. Passing their t...

New Congress: Will GOP Undo U.S. Health Care?
Coming off of a productive and cooperative lame-duck session, Republicans say their new Congress won’t be nearly as friendly toward Democratic goals. Will the new GOP undo the 2010 U.S. Health Care bill? Find out if they have the numbers, and see pictures and video below! Looking to make good on a promise made in many of their campaigns, new Republican Congress members have one shared goal in mind starting the new year: Repealing ‘ObamaCare’. Calling it irres...

ObamaCare Repeal Vote, Bill to De-Fund Abortion, Coming Soon
The new Republican chairman of the panel responsible for starting action on repealing the Abortion-funding ObamaCare law says a vote will take place soon. Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan, incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said yesterday that a vote on the Repeal Legislation and a companion bill to ensure there is no abortion funding under ObamaCare, will take place before President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address later this month. “As part of ou...

ABC News Political Director Advises GOP Not to Try and Repeal ObamaCare Video
Here is video of ABC News Political Director Amy Walter essentially warning Republicans not to pursue a Repeal of ObamaCare in the new Congress, saying ominously she does not think that would “set well with the electorate.” In the first place, isn’t it odd that the “Political Director” of a major news network would be making statements like this - especially since they like to put forth the facade of being impartial and independent? Beyond that, Republicans ...

News links: GOP may have votes to override a presidential veto of Obamacare repeal
The Obama Administration lifted its deep-water Drilling Ban two months ago, but drillers have yet to see any new oil wells be approved. Some experts think drilling will be stalled well into the new year. Wall Street Journal>>> Key GOP committee chair Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan thinks his party has the votes to overcome a presidential Veto on Legislation to Repeal the Health Care overhaul. Politico>>> 2.5 million Baby Boomers will join Medicare in 2011, at a rate of 7,000 a...

Republicans Plan ObamaCare Repeal Votes Before State Of The Union
Incoming House Speaker John Boehner pledges that the GOP "Pledge to America" will not become a worthless piece of paper, much as the "Contract with America" became. Things will change. He has already put out the new rules, and plans to take them seriously. We'll see. And one thing we'll see soon will be votes to Repeal ObamaCareSoon after the 112th Congress convenes Wednesday, Republicans in the House plan to make good on a campaign promise that helped vault many new members to victory: voting t...

What 2011 Will Bring To Your Health?
Kaiser Health News has compiled nine ways the federal law overhauling Health Care could affect you. The Food and Drug Administration has a March deadline to finalize rules requiring chain restaurants to post calorie counts, though some  eateries have started already. If you've got a flexible spending account at work, you can't use the money to cover over-the-counter remedies anymore. USA Today knows that almost all of us have vowed to lose weight this year, just like last year and the year ...

Ds Trounced, Keep Leadership; Rs Romp, Steele On The Ropes
From the what-planet-are-you-on desk comes the illogic of politics in America. Democrats, who got their butts kicked in the most recent political season, will stay with the same team. No testing of the Free Agent market. No trades. Coaching staff remains in place. Granted, this is predictable. The Democrats have become the country’s most reactionary political party, still promulgating policies last known to have found favor in the 1930’s and 1960’s, well before the national industrial eco

The Big Reset 2: An Economic Strategy
The Big Reset 2: An Economic Strategy Monday, 01/3/2011 - 11:16 am by Bo Cutter | Post a Comment Shaping the future with today’s choices. Here is what President Obama should be thinking out there in Hawaii: “To paraphrase Wellington on Waterloo, ‘the last two years were a damned close thing.’ I had some big wins but I also made big mistakes. In particular, it is beyond me how we managed to lose control of the economic and financial debate when we came into office after an ...

Senate Democrats vow to block health care repeal
WASHINGTON — Top Senate Democrats are warning House Speaker-elect John Boehner they’ll block any Republican effort to Repeal President Barack Obama’s Health Care overhaul. Citing better Medicare prescription coverage and other changes in the new law, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his top lieutenants say the overhaul "is too important to be treated as Collateral Damage in a partisan mission to Repeal health care." The letter says Repeal would have "unintended consequenc...

Senate Democrats vow to block health care repeal
WASHINGTON (AP) - Top Senate Democrats are warning House Speaker-elect John Boehner they'll block any Republican effort to Repeal President Barack Obama's Health Care overhaul. Citing better Medicare prescription coverage and other changes in the new law, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his top lieutenants say the overhaul "is too important to be treated as Collateral Damage in a partisan mission to Repeal health care." The letter says Repeal would have "Unintended Consequences" for the ...

Democrats to GOP: Time to Put up or Shut Up
Mike Kelly and Anthony Weiner square off on Face The Nation. (Credit: CBS) Welcome to 2011. Let the partisan bickering begin. Anyone wanting to know how newly empowered Republicans and newly minority-status House Democrats will behave should look no further than Sunday's "Face the Nation" here on CBS. It was a rousing debate between conservative stalwart Michele Bachmann (R-MN), freshman Republican Mike Kelly (R-PA), and Democrats Anthony Weiner (D-NY) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL). D...

Debt-ceiling vote first test for new Republican majority?
During the midterm campaign, Republicans assured voters that they would put an end to the free-spending ways of Barack Obama and the Democratic majority. Now that they have taken control of the House, that fiscal discipline will be put to the test Sooner Rather Than Later. Republicans have to draft a Budget for the remainder of FY2011 after Democrats failed to do so with large majorities, and that will also mean taking into account the rapidly-approaching Debt ceiling. Will Republicans allow m...

Obama's new year blues as strengthened Republicans push for spending cuts
Republican speaker John Boehner will take the gavel from Nancy Pelosi's hands. Photograph: J. Scott Applewhite/AP What's in store for Barack Obama as 2011 opens? Forget the nicey-nice tenor of the lame-duck session. As of tomorrow the new Congress is sworn in. Republican John Boehner takes the gavel out of Nancy Pelosi's hands and will preside over the House of Representatives, a body that has 63 more Republicans than it did last year. Over on the Senate side of the Capitol building, the Dem...

Why I find it hard to take Sandy Levinson seriously
I know Sandy Levinson is supposed to be a big shot con law prof, but I find his postings at Balkinization hard to take seriously. Consider the latest, in which he informs us that: The US Senate is an "egregious institution" that he believes to be "fundamentally illegitimate." The Federalist Papers tell us in # 62 that the Senate was an essential Compromise to make the Union possible. They also tell us that equality of representation in the Senate helps promote federalism:...

Republicans may starve financial reform of cash
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the new Congress could put the Budget squeeze on two powerful regulatory agencies to slow President Barack Obama's crackdown on Wall Street. A Democratic-controlled Congress pushed through the Dodd-Frank bank reform laws last year and Regulators were counting on a big Budget boost to police the $600 Trillion over-the-counter Derivatives market -- blamed for much of the excess behind the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis. But the last Congress failed to deliver on t...